On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

GERMAN SURVIVORS FROM THE FALKLANDS ENGAGEMENT [United Press Association.] (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, January 14. Two hundred German survivors of the Falklands engagement have arrived in England. TWO BILLS OF LADING. London, January 14. Captains of neutral ships going to Denmark are being suspected of carrying a double set of bills of consignment in order to evade examination by British cruisers, and Denmark has ordered the owners to sign a declaration that the captain carries one set of papers only. THE LOSS OF THE SCHARNHORST Amsterdam, January 14. A Berlin telegram states that none of the Scharnhorst’s crew were sav. ed, but that seven officers and 171 of the Gneisenau’s crew, no officers, and seven men of the Nurnberg’s, and four officers and fifteen men of the Leipzig’s were rescused. The convoy vessels and crews were all saved.

BERESFORD REBUKES THE ADMIRALTY. London, January 14. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, formerly Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, in a letter to the press, says:—“H.M.S. Formidable was lost under conditions whose repetition after the loss of the Aboukir and Cressy was thought impossible. In both cases the ships were sent to waters infested with submarines without being protected by destroyers. The efficacy of such protection has been shown by the fact that submarines have been unable to injure the British squadron on the Belgian coast. It is unpardonable,” says Lord Charles, ‘‘that officers and crews should be so exposed.”